Thurs. October 1, 2009 - Sat. October 3, 2009 

Baltimore, MD 21202

NGDM '09

Next Generation Data Mining Summit: Dealing with the
Energy Crisis, Greenhouse Emissions, and Transportation
Challenges

SCHEDULE

NGDM'09 will start on Oct 1, 2009 at 8am EST. It will end on Oct 3, 2009 at 12:00pm EST.
NGDM’09 Preliminary Schedule

Thursday, Oct 1, 2009
7:00—8:00am	Breakfast (Served), Registration
8:00—8:10am	Welcome remarks
8:10—10:40am	Session Title: Climate Change, Environmental Issues and Data Mining
	Session Chair: Hillol Kargupta
	Vipin Kumar, Professor, University of Minnesota, Assessing Change in Global Forest Cover using Data Mining [abstract] [slides]
	David J. Erickson III, Senior Scientist, Oak Ridge Nat. Lab, The next generation of challenges in data mining: Extracting geophysical content from satellites and global climate models that yield Petabytes of data per day [abstract][slides]
	Nitesh Chawla, Professor, University of Norte Dame, A Complex Networks Perspective on Global Climate, Commerce and Environment [abstract] [slides]
	Robert Neff, Professor, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Urban Fragmentation and Energy Consumption Patterns from Commuting in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, 1990-2000 [abstract] [slides]
	Auroop Ganguly, Research Scientist, Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., Climate Extremes: The Science, Impacts and Policy Relevance [abstract][slides]
10:40—11:00am	Coffee Break (Served)
11:00—12:00am	Discussion Session:
	Panelists: Auroop Ganguly and Vipin Kumar
12:00—1:30pm	Lunch (Served)
1:30—3:30pm	Session Title: Sustainable Computing, Energy Crisis, and Data Mining
	Session Chair: Hillol Kargupta
	Rich Lechner, Vice President, IBM, Lets Build a Smarter Planet: Leveraging Technology for Green Beyond [abstract][slides]
	Krishna Rajan, Professor, Iowa State University, Data mining for new materials chemistries for immobilizing environmentally toxic elements: a systems engineering approach [abstract][slides]
	Mark McGranaghan, Director, Electric Power Res. Inst., How Standards for Interoperability can Enable Smart Grid Information Integration [abstract][slides]
	Douglas Fisher, Program Director, National Science Found. Computing, Environment, Energy, Sustainability [slides]
3:30—3:50pm	Coffee Break (Served)
3:50—5:20pm	Session Title: Transportation and Data Mining
	Session Chair: Aryya Gangopadhyay
	Ashok Srivastava, Principal Investigator, NASA Ames, Data Mining and Sustainable Systems [abstract][slides]
	Umesh Dayal, HP Fellow, HP Labs, Real Time Operations Management with a Stream Processing Engine [abstract][slides]
	Phil Gross, Senior Staff, Columbia University, Estimating the Time Between Failures of Electrical Feeders in the New York Power Grid [abstract][slides]
5:20—6:20pm	Discussion Session:
	Panelists: Mark McGranghan, Douglas Fisher
6:30—8:30pm	Poster Sessions, Demos & Welcome Reception
	Welcome Note: Dean Warren DeVries College of Engineering and Information Technology, UMBC

Friday, Oct 2, 2009
7:00—8:00am	Breakfast (Served), Registration
8:00—8:10am	Remarks/Announcements
8:10—10:40am	Session Title: Transportation and Data Mining
	Session Chair: Chris Giannella
	Brian Worley, Division Director, Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., A Knowledge Discovery Perspective in Data Mining [abstract][slides]
	Shashi Shekhar, Professor, University of Minnesota, Data Mining and Environmental Sciences [abstract][slides]
	Chandra Bhat, Professor, UT Austin, On The Transportation-Energy and The Transportation-GHG Emissions Connection [abstract][slides]
	Hillol Kargupta, Professor, UMBC and Agnik [abstract][slides]
	Eugene Tierney, Scientist, Env. Protection Agency (EPA), Data Mining to Support MOVES [abstract][slides]
10:40—11:00am	Coffee Break (Served)
11:00—12:00am	Discussion Session:
	Panelists: Chadra Bhat, Johannes Gehrke
12:00—1:00pm	Lunch (Served)
1:00—3:30pm	Session Title: Transportation and Data Mining
	Session Chair: Vipin Kumar
	Johannes Gehrke, Professor, Cornell University, Scaling Transportation Simulations Through Declarative Processing [abstract][slides]
	Alok Choudhary, Professor, North Western University, Data-Aware Control Efficient Traffic Management [abstract][slides]
	Paul Melby, Senior Scientist, MITRE, Data Mining for Aviation Safety [abstract] [slides]
	Mario Cools, Hasselt University, The presentation of an integrated microsimulation modeling framework to measure and predict emissions and dynamic exposure [abstract] [slides]
	Wei Fan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Discriminative Signature Mining and its Application to Intelligent Transportation System, Fuel Efficiency and Beyond [abstract][slides]
3:30—3:50pm	Coffee Break (Served)
3:50—4:50pm	Session Title: Climate Change Communications, Computational Sustainability, and Data Mining
	Session Chair: Dino Pedreschi
	Edward Maibach, Professor, George Mason University, Climate Change and Energy Use: Examining the American People and the Drivers of Population Behavior [abstract] [slides]
	Carla Gomes, Professor, Cornell University, Challenges in Computational Sustainability [abstract][slides]
4:50—5:40pm	Discussion Session:
	Panelist: Paul Melby
5:50pm	Bus Leaves for Inner Harbor
6:15—9:15pm	Banquet Dinner Cruise

Saturday, Oct 3, 2009
7:00—8:00am	Breakfast, Registration (Served)
8:00—8:10am	Remarks/Announcements
8:10—10:40am	Session Title: Transportation, Emissions, Carbon Trading and Data Mining
	Session Chair: Wei Fan
	Dino Pedreschi, Prof, Univ. of Pisa and Northeastern Univ., Mining Mobility Behavior from Trajectory Data [abstract][slides]
	Vince Mow, Senior Technical Staff, Mactec Federal Programs, Wireless Vehicle Inspection for Mobile Source Emissions Programs [abstract][slides]
	Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Director of Emerging Technologies, GM (Ret.), Strategic Role of Data Mining in Transportation and Emissions Reduction Challenges [abstract][slides]
	Philip Yu, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Mining Evolving Data Streams for Real-time Monitoring Applications [abstract][slides]
	Kirk Borne, Professor, George Mason University, Advancing Science through User-Guided Learning in Massive Data Streams [abstract][slides]
10:40—11:00am	Coffee Break (Served)
11:00—12:00 noon	Discussion Session:
	Panelists: Phillip Yu, Ramasamy Uthurusamy
12:00 noon	NGDM’09 Concludes